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Innovation in health and social care: social and historical
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care: social and historical

...adult intelligence. As a consequence, several US states introduced compulsory sterilisation to prohibit ‘undesirable’ or ‘feeble minded’ people from reproducing (McGowan and Westley, 2015). While medical technology had made sterilisation safe, to contemporary ethicists it was unethical practice. However, at the time Terman and others believed they were doing the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...adult. Home learning can range from reading a book, completing a research project about a specific subject, or completing practice examination questions. * Mobile learning Learning is supported through the use of mobile devices, which can be used almost anywhere (e.g. workplace, fieldwork, home study), are often faster to connect, and have features such as built-in camera...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...adults and two children. These expectations fit with what we know about demographic patterns in Europe during the interwar years. Discussion Also of note in this article is Steinicke’s description of the tortuous process by which the Müller family obtained their modern apartment. Although around 2.5 million modern apartments such as these were constructed during the...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...adult participants to determine whether offenders in prisons differ in their personality according to Eysenck’s dimensions, as compared to non-offenders. Bourke et al. (2013) surveyed prisoners and found that those who were re-offenders (who have offended more than once) scored more highly on the P scale and were lower on the E and N scale compared to those who were...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...adults view the world. (New case study.) David Elkind Where is yours? Where’s mine? Now do we both have the same to drink or does one of us have more? Girl I do. (New case study.) David Elkind But isn’t this higher than this one? I mean, this is up here and this is way down here – doesn’t that make this one more? Girl Well, this one may be taller but this one is...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...adult citizen alone and ‘a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state, beyond the post office and the policeman’ (1975, p. 25) (Taylor was writing specifically about England, but what he says applies more generally across the UK). This is certainly no longer the case today. For Taylor, it was the First World...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Two concepts of freedom
History & The Arts

Two concepts of freedom

...adults choose to do in private? When, if ever, is coercion acceptable? Are all laws obstacles to freedom, or are they the very condition of achieving it? Should we sometimes force people to be free, or is that a contradiction in terms? These are serious questions. They're not merely abstract puzzles for philosophers to ponder in comfortable armchairs. They are the sorts...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...adult. The child is asking the adult ‘So is learning political, miss?’] Figure 3 At what level?...Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change: 2 Mindset and models for inclusive leadership - [Speech bubble image with the text: What do you think?] Figure 4 The EU project mentioned above conceptualised inclusive leadership by drawing upon three main theories of school...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs